RT Book, Section
A1 Greenberg, Raymond S.
A1 Daniels, Stephen R.
A1 Flanders, W. Dana
A1 Eley, John William
A1 Boring, John R.
SR Print(0)
ID 545000
T1 Chapter 1. Introduction to Epidemiology
T2 Medical Epidemiology, 4e
YR 2005
FD 2005
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071416375
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=545000
RD 2024/04/20
AB Epidemiology  is  the  study  of  the  distribution  and  determinants  of  diseases  within  human  populations.  Research  in  this  field  is  based  primarily  upon  observing  people  directly  in  their  natural  environments.Epidemiology  can  be  used  for  descriptive  purposes,  such  as  surveillance  of  the  occurrence  (incidence)  of  a  particular  illness.Epidemiology  can  be  used  for  analytic  purposes,  such  as  studying  risk  factors  for  disease  development.Epidemiologic  methods  can  be  used  to  assess  the  performance  of  diagnostic  tests.Epidemiology  can  be  used  to  study  the  progression  or  natural  history  of  a  disease.Epidemiologic  methods  can  be  used  to  study  prognostic  factors,  which  are  determinants  of  the  progression  of  a  disease.Epidemiology  can  be  used  to  evaluate  treatments  for  a  disease.